Web Development

This Tuesday, March 24, 2015, the Drupal community lost Aaron Winborn who was diagnosed with ALS a few years ago. In honor of Aaron, the Drupal Association and Angie Bryon recently announced the Aaron Winborn Award. The announcement reads:

This will be an annual award recognizing an individual who demonstrates personal integrity, kindness, and above-and-beyond commitment to the Drupal community. It will include a scholarship and stipend to attend DrupalCon and recognition in a plenary session at the event. Part of the award will also be donated to the special needs trust to support Aaron's family on an annual basis.

Thanks to Hans Riemenschneider for the suggestion, and the Drupal Association executive board for approving this idea and budget so quickly. We feel this award is a fitting honor to someone who gave so much to Drupal both on a technical and personal level.

Thank you so much to Aaron for sharing your personal journey with all of us. It’s been a long journey, and a difficult one. You and your family are all in our thoughts.

Standardizing personal experience sounds impersonal, doesn't it? Yet, that's what we're talking about here and there are plenty of software folks believing it's the right time for such an effort. When companies manage or utilize a number of systems involved with customer experience management, there is a need for those systems to transfer data from one system to the next. It is a huge challenge for CIOs, trying to streamline heterogeneous technologies and the data and transactions flowing from each solutions from their information system, while at the same time avoiding losing control over the collected data.

Working together, Jahia and Enonic have launched a new project at the OASIS international consortium to develop a standard that will enable the creation, management and delivery of personalized web and digital experiences. This initiative lead to the creation of the OASIS Context Server (CXS) Technical Committee (TC). Think of this effort similar to what brought us Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) but instead of a standard for content, we're talking about a standard for personalized data.

The digital learning content management business solution provider, eXact learning solutions, and its learning content management system (LCMS) have been named on the official list of Tin Can adopters.

CMS Report doesn't usually mention software point releases that only fixes bugs and brings no features to the CMS users. However, I screwed up last month. I failed to mention the February release of Joomla 3.4. So let me make up for that oversight by mentioning the release of Joomla 3.4.1. With 3.4.1, Joomla's developers have resolved nearly 150 issues with Joomla 3.4.

Big Data is changing the world. The ability to store, manage and extract actionable insights from vast and deep lakes of disparate data pouring in from multiple sources has transformed businesses, industries, and our lives.

In Chris Lucas' article,5 Mobile Marketing Mistakes – and How to Fix Them, he talks about how many marketers approach mobile marketing as an afterthought. Too often marketers make costly mistakes when it comes to mobile that can add up to lost customers. Here is the infographic that accompanies the article showing the top five most egregious mobile marketing mistakes — and how they can be fixed.

According to a report from Mobile Media Consumption, consumers today spend nearly 60% of their time on the Internet on their mobile devices, as compared to their desktop or laptop computer, tablet and other devices. These findings support what we as modern marketers already know: Mobile marketing is more important today than ever before.

Unfortunately, many marketers approach mobile marketing as an afterthought, and make costly mistakes that not only add up to lost clicks — but lost customers.

To help, here are the top five most egregious mobile marketing mistakes — and how they can be fixed.

SiteSupra, a hosted CMS and website builder, has now released their software as an open source CMS and development framework. SiteSupra Open Source Edition brings a new dimension to the web development market, as an open source product that may be hosted outside SiteSupra's own servers.

If your team has a great software product idea to improve internal productivity or, more importantly, improve customer acquisition and sales revenue, don't be afraid to explore that opportunity. Open up the discussion and consider employing the expert services of a software product development company. You will find it much easier to sell the project to management and to successfully complete and deploy your product on time and on budget.

If you are considering a transition to a new content management solution, the addition of a CMS solution to a portal or site or a blog, portal, or site redesign, you may wish to look at Umbraco and consider its open source, flexible features, templates and customization capabilities. It is a worthy contender in the CMS market and offers numerous functional and technical benefits to your business.

Since 2006, we've let the world know of our obsession for content management systems. CMS Report puts special focus on applications for content and document management, collaboration, social publishing, web design, and the mobile web. With over 300 authors having contributed thousands of articles to the site you've come to the right place to share and find new insights in the industry of content management.